— BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight (@BBCSouthNews) November 6, 2026
British society, or UK society, is gradually sliding to dystopia.
In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, stabbings happened, but were relatively rare. Now they are a daily occurrence, are often fatal, and occur even in supposedly “good” areas of the country. Most, though far from all, are committed by blacks and browns.
Western nations and international institutions have provided Ukraine with nearly $212 bln in direct financial support through various grants and loans since February 2022, according to TASS calculations based on data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance:https://t.co/BNX67i9b07pic.twitter.com/BVF4pW3sHh
🇮🇷Traces of a fire on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
A few hours ago, NASA's FIRMS satellites and low-resolution satellite images captured a burning oil tanker in the western part of the Strait of Hormuz.
The victims, accosted in the street, fight for their lives. They know that front-line service in the army of the Kiev regime is a death sentence, as also is to be sent to the prisons and torture-centres of the regime.
This is what the governments of the UK and EU are supporting and funding— a brutal Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian thug dictatorship.
A plane has collided with a vehicle while making an emergency landing in the US state of Florida, County Sheriff Carmine Marceno reported on X:https://t.co/EtpP6gjaMv
Again, this is the classic problem with Andy Burnham's strategy. Lisa Nandy is simultaneously deploying two entirely contradictory lines. "We don't want the Brexit debate reopened. But Brexit isn't working, so we need to reopen the issue". What exactly is the Government's policy. https://t.co/r2hCoTg90A
They fought for an England they remembered, they fought because they were told it was in danger. Not one fought for what this country has become, a betrayal to their memory. pic.twitter.com/Pp3GTqUFQQ
Meanwhile UN report clearly states that Israel targets Palestinian women and children to destroy Palestinian future in any shape and form pic.twitter.com/o1FR22Z33z
If some of the Gazans behave monstrously, this is one example of the reason why— the behaviour and actions of the Israeli Jews over years, indeed decades, and particularly in the past few years.
If, as widely claimed, Jews have been expelled from over 100 states and territories throughout recorded history, it is surely relevant to ask why.
I remember when I lived in #Gaza just how devastating the rains were each November – and that was without almost an entire population sheltering in tents and under flimsy plastic sheeting! Israel’s obstruction of all forms of shelter and aid is an atrocity! pic.twitter.com/i3vgadeoBG
Meanwhile, I am seeing tweets from UK-resident Jews mocking the Palestinian Arabs suffering like that in Gaza…
The USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class belonging to the U.S. Navy, has departed the Changi Naval Base, located in southeastern Singapore, and is heading to the CENTCOM area of responsibility in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/sS4b4zxS1A
[“Medvedev: The most important event for Russia will be victory over Western and NATO forces.
He told Iranian state television that he was referring to the forces that are using Ukraine against Russia.
He particularly emphasized that Ukraine, if it wants a political solution, must officially recognize its neutral and non-nuclear status, abandon its nationalist course, and recognize the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as Russian territories.
He also stated that Kyiv must stop the persecution of the Russian language and return to the principles outlined in the Ukrainian Declaration on Sovereignty from the 1990s.“]
Sachs: Moscow's Position on Ending the Conflict in Ukraine is Justified
HE EMPHASIZED THAT PUTIN IS UNFOUNDEDLY ACCUSED OF HAVING "FANTASIES ABOUT RESTORING THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE"
Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University stated that Moscow's position on ending the conflict… pic.twitter.com/C5QlEh1GRN
"The Russia we see today is less predictable and poses a more serious threat than the Soviet Union…" – Angus Lapsley, the UK's permanent representative to NATO.
Currently, there are 134.8 million households in the United States.
Only 1.4 million households, or approximately 1 percent of all households in the United States, control 32.5 percent of the country's household wealth, which is a record high.
John on good form. Security service home intrusion frighteners are very real. When I quit the FCO a friend lent us an apartment in Docklands. One night we came home and every single electrical appliance was on. The iron, hoover, microwave, kettle, oven, TV, HIFI, radio, coffee… https://t.co/KTZNXUnBhG
Worth watching/listening to that. Appalling behaviour by Israeli Jew operatives (MOSSAD etc).
Israeli/Jewish influence/power in the USA (and the UK is not very much better, though at least the public is waking up at last).
The American and British taxpayers are subsidizing their own oppressors. In the UK, it becomes more blatant every year.
"what seats I can go for" – that very language should raise suspicions: it's not about public service at all, it's about "winning" and "securing seats". These people are awful, they don't give a fuck about you or I, all they care about is enriching themselves by proxy.
I doubt that anyone would vote for that dim careerist woman; anyway, the Conservative Party is probably going to lose even the seats (maybe half of them) that it has at present.
Should be taught in schools, both in the USA and UK (but of course will not be, so long as the System rules).
Of course, the money is just a way-station. Power is their objective; to rule the world via money, via the money power.
cf. The Ring of the Nibelungen, and Lord of the Rings.
Interesting travel vlog
As before with those vloggers, there is a certain naivety. For example, they buy two baseball-type military caps with Chinese red stars, and wear them for a while. They would not wear caps with swastika emblems, nor even hammer and sickle emblems, probably.
What always strikes me about such vlogs about China is the scale of the engineering and architecture. The airports and railway stations put Europe, certainly the UK, to shame, frankly. The hotels and cafeterias as well. While I always have in the back of my mind the disregard the Chinese often seem to have for animal welfare (and, sometimes, human rights as well), it cannot be denied that China has leapt ahead in the past 20-40 years.
Another thing that struck me, but about the vlogging couple themselves, is how dependent they are on their mobile telephones. They pay for almost everything, from taxis to hotels, to railways and airline tickets, to food, even snacks such as crisps, using their telephones. One wonders where they would be were they to lose the devices, or have them stolen. Seems insecure, somehow. They even have apps or whatever to interpret for them in various languages.
Of course, I am a sceptic: I had a mobile telephone before most people, in 1993, and I had to have one when I worked as a barrister, but for the past many years have not had one, and do not really need one (I hope). My car has an emergency help facility built in, if I were to break down (unlikely) or have a crash. Have never had to test that out though; hopefully, it works…
Taiwan looks almost deserted in that vlog, despite having 23M people in a country half the size of Scotland. I suppose the main populations live in or around Taipei, in the north. The vloggers are in the west, having arrived from mainland China on a small ferry.
Ah, I see now that I mistook where they were, not on the main island of Taiwan at all, but on Kinmen Island, a very small part of Taiwan that is only about 2 miles from mainland China.
Interesting that the mainland Chinese have not invaded that small island. They must be following the maxim of Sun Tzu, “to win without war…this is the supreme excellence“. A saying we in Europe might ponder. There is no overt Chinese aggression towards Europe, but we do see increasing numbers of Chinese living in parts of Europe, not least the UK. Millions of them.
I believe that border areas of Russia, in the (once Chinese) far-eastern parts known from the 1930s to the early 1990s as the Soviet Far East, have seen seepage of Chinese (farmers, traders etc) coming to live there.
Another vlog from the same couple
As with their previous vlog posts about Iran, interesting to see aspects of everyday life there not usually seen on the UK/Western mass media.
Incredible carpet shop in Isfahan. Even less expected, a great hotel (albeit rather glitzy) in the same city.
More tweets seen
The Ukrainian army lost around 1,395 troops over the past day in operations by Russian battlegroups in the special military operation zone, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/HlykELjdxbpic.twitter.com/ObEbm2QPKq
— Fiona-Natasha Syms REJOIN 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@SymsFifi) October 4, 2026
All such rioters should be executed in the field, as soon as seen and designated.
….and the unemployed are all feckless drunks. 👍
— Fiona-Natasha Syms REJOIN 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@SymsFifi) October 4, 2026
So people earning £100,000+ per year are in need of State-subsidized childcare? The Nigerian idiot is even more of an idiot than I had previously thought. £100,000 p.a. (pre-tax) is scarcely a fortune, but it is still 2x-3x what most people are paid in the UK, and 8x-10x what many have to live on.
Also, the lady tweeter is right. The nexus “work hard/high pay” is not at all as firm as many believe.
Kemi Badenoch thinks that all the unemployed are “feckless drunks“. She was caught saying it. Not only very arrogant and dismissive, but actually wrong. Only a small minority are feckless drunks.
I think that you can see there the Nigerian woman’s background coming out. She, after all, is not English and, except that she has a British passport because her parents came to have her born in London so that she could later get a Brit passport (as the law was until 1982), is not in any real sense British. She was brought up in Nigeria and then the USA. She only came here as a teenager of 16-17. Her attitudes are basically pseudo-“libertarian” American, not British or indeed European.
Late tweets
Locals gather in Gosport this evening after a migrant boat has arrived.
Its been reported that Hampshire police have been hitting people with batons and arrests have been made.
Why? Because they voiced their opinion on illegal migrant men being housed in their community, a… pic.twitter.com/kMJRvBmOJA
[“Ivor Caplin, former defence minister under Blair during Iraq, and best friend of @peterkyle, has registered as homeless in Hove, after his company went bust with £100,000 debts. The former chair of @JewishLabour blew a fortune on crystal meth while allegedly sexually assaulting a young person in a homeless in a hostel in Brighton. Many @bhlabour members know a lot more than they have told @sussex_police.“]
Links to Mandelson, and therefore to Epstein and Israeli Intelligence.
As Europe trundles at increasing speed towards some sort of multicultural cataclysm I would like to remind the ladies and gentlemen in the audience that The Woodlander Initiative is here to offer you a beautiful safe place to be with like minded folk.https://t.co/3XziTpe0Rypic.twitter.com/Ckt1oJ2Fob
Multiculturalism and AI / Technology combined to bring you the wonders of a high surveillance 20 minutes neighbourhood, populated by violent migrants. You will have no job & recieve survival UBI.
Already there for many people. Also, it will become very difficult, almost impossible, to live a normal life without being plugged-in to the System matrix via mobile telephones, computers etc. That is almost the case already for many.
Gaza’s Greek Orthodox Church held funeral services today for Maysa Daoud and her daughter, Mary, who were killed while sleeping when an Israeli strike hit their apartment in western Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense.
The Israeli Jews continue to kill and maim civilians in Gaza and elsewhere and, via their fifth column of Jew-Zionists and suborned non-Jew pro-Israel drones in the UK, to interfere with British political life and freedom of expression.
In 1948, a monster was born.
The traitorous RNLI vessel that brought the new hoard of migrants to our shores has left the dock at Gosport.
What must go through their minds when they close their eyes?
During his visit to Kiev, Merz announced a new package of military aid for Ukraine worth around €1 billion, which will include long-range weapons and strike drones, as well as a further €350 million to support the energy sector:https://t.co/tLlttycdtypic.twitter.com/Q6lxbffvM9
Responding to Kiev’s escalation is currently the only way for Russia to pursue its interests, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Rossiya-1 journalist Pavel Zarubin:https://t.co/x4sEG8gFNNpic.twitter.com/bW3QhSVnpj
Well, an unusual week, in which political journalist John Rentoul scored higher than me— 7/10 as against my 6/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 4, and 7, though in fact I had heard of no. 2 (but forgotten it), and should also have got no. 3, but did not.
Dutch family bought a house in rural Russia for less than £20,000
Certainly puts to shame the American and British ones I have seen.
Tweets seen
As was inevitable, Burnham turns out to be just another System puppet. I expected nothing other.
The corruptors of our legislature, as well as the general society.
Currently a bit of speculation about the role of Josh Simons. Whatever some people's concerns, the reality is Andy Burnham believes he wouldn't be preparing to be Prime Minister if it wasn't for Simons. He's going to be a key part of the Burnham operation moving forward.
Josh Simons: Jewish or, maybe, half-Jew; former Director of anti-Corbyn pro-Jewish-lobby and pro-Israel organization, Labour Together; former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel; met his wife at Harvard, but her exact provenance is unknown; was MP at Makerfield but gave up his seat so that Andy Burnham could be parachuted into Downing Street to replace Starmer-stein (because Starmer had lost the confidence of the voters). Now Burnham’s Chief of Staff.
Exactly what this blog has been predicting for years, at least 2 years if not longer— “asylum” and other claims rubberstamped before the bastards ever get here. The other, similar, scam is of course “closing asylum hotels”…yes, because the migrant-invaders are being placed in council or private rental property, while British people languish endlessly on housing waiting lists.
Apart from anything else, everyone knows (even the hardened pro-immigration drones) that virtually all the immigrants are parasites, and even if a small number are not, their extended families are or will be. A significant number are also, or will be, criminally-inclined, one way or another, and a very small (?) but not insignificant number will be either terrorists, terrorist sympathisers and possibly facilitators, and/or dangerous mentally-disturbed crazies.
Why do grass, meadows and trees fill us with such pure joy? Because they are living beings safe from within. They will never die of a broken heart nor lose their mind. They never betray themselves, sparing us the spectacle of our own ambiguous existence.
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” [Tolstoy]
The Macpherson Report in 1999 was a moment where the anti-white left suddenly took a huge leap forward (with the help of the centre-right, of course). Please have a listen. https://t.co/24aQiNRjgj
The massive 32 acre hillfort on Martinsell Hill, dating from 600 BC. It was apparently known for strange, Palm Sunday fairs until 1860, where local youngsters threw oranges and sledded down the steep escarpments on horse jawbones! pic.twitter.com/o7eQWFxCIs
'Annuals die thro’ heat. Hops run their poles. My well is low; but affords plenty of fine clear water. We draw great quantities for the garden. A constant spring runs through it.' Gilbert White Selborne pic.twitter.com/0SPOqIleeM
“The single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing. “Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities – backed by funding from Eton.” “When Bridget became… https://t.co/eeBIc2H9shpic.twitter.com/qFXcObaOo1
It’s starting to feel unlikely we’ll ever have a general election again. If the state is going to work against the interests of the British people, the British people will be forced to pursue solutions outside of politics. The government is creating the conditions for civil war.
Much depends on what happens with both Reform UK and Restore Britain. Even if voters are voting against some party (eg Lab), and so voting elsewhere (eg Reform, Restore), they still, most of them, will not vote for parties that are an absolute shambles.
The System may foment a war with Russia —or create a pre-conflict period— thus also providing the excuse to “postpone” a general election. Were that to happen, though, the vanguard of the British people might have to rise up, seriously, against the System (and I am not talking about such stupid and trivial acts as throwing wheelie bins at police, or taking part in pathetic and tiny street protests).
.@lsanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, was banned from the site indefinitely on Monday for promoting an initiative that, among other things, aims to prevent the site from being biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel views, he told… pic.twitter.com/1oqBGmtlD1
The reality is that Wikipedia has for years been infiltrated by Jews intent on spreading Jewish/Zionist, including pro-Israel, propaganda.
Below, a tweet from several years ago, published by the liars and perjurers known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism”. Note that the “CAA” wanted (and wants) to recruit Jews with their own Wikipedia accounts, so that Wikipedia will not flag the fact that (((their))) “edits” (i.e. vandalistic edits) are part of a Jew/Zionist campaign; those edits will appear as if from individuals, rather than from a Jew-Zionist conspiracy.
The BBC-Westminster-SW1 Blob is constantly gaslighting you.
Remember when they tried to have you believe Shabana Mahmood was a “hardliner” on immigration?
Reform’s problem is that its policy at present is to allow to stay in the UK all those so far granted “indefinite leave to remain”, and all those granted ILR right up to whenever (if ever) Reform forms a government. Thus 80% —even of beach-landing— migrant-invaders, and almost all “legal” migrants, will not be affected. Millions. Tens of millions.
On those premises, the only reason to vote Reform is that it is marginally better than the (other) System parties.
Not good enough.
I hope that Reform and Restore can at least move the Overton Window, and also trample down Lab and Con, thus making it easier for social nationalism to rise up, so —to that extent— they have that potential utility, but Reform at least seems to want a society composed of quite similar populations to the present.
Not good enough.
Finally, the Jewish/Zionist/Israeli influence is already embedded in Reform.
Not good enough.
In case you missed.
A new study confirms what I’ve argued for 15 years.
Robert Fico has emphasized that the mandate given to the country's delegation for the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara does not authorize Slovakia's participation in another military loan to Ukraine:https://t.co/qLsp7kOtp8pic.twitter.com/SX6sIM4bMW
Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft at the Voznesensk airfield in the Nikolayev region using Geran-4 Seeker UAVs, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/YChtdBcFybpic.twitter.com/NneXLnkFUA
Russian troops destroyed up to a platoon of the Ukrainian army’s troops and 16 Baba Yaga hexacopters during the fighting for Novoskelevatoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/DGCLiahIUvpic.twitter.com/gqREpm373z
Five residents of the Kursk Region and two other people from other Russian regions have returned home from Ukrainian captivity, Russian human rights ombudsperson Yana Lantratova said:https://t.co/gcKvAa28qfpic.twitter.com/hPejndXq4W
Didn’t take long for me to find a MSM outlet to push the ‘French man’ narrative. The guy was originally from Africa for fuck sake and was a French NATIONAL. This is why these things keep happening, because headlines aren’t reported correctly and the normies still assume it’s an… https://t.co/zkUOHrWpl5
Tucker Carlson: there was no intelligence data indicating that Iran was close to creating nuclear weapons, and this claim came from the Zionist regime. pic.twitter.com/dvPnb27J1M
Their malice and destructiveness is endless (unless they are ended).
Police in Berlin took to the streets with water cannons to help residents survive the hellish heat. Today, a historic temperature record was set in the German capital — +40°C pic.twitter.com/gRqCpBLb6N
In reality, everything that has been happening in all parts of occupied Palestine relates to the plan to settle immigrant Jews everywhere, then to expand Israeli Lebensraum and to create, over time, a “Greater Israel”:
“It’s not hard to figure out why Reform is now surging in the polls.
Millions of hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding people in this country are utterly frustrated & fed-up with the elite consensus that has been imposed on them from above for the last 30 years.
An elite consensus that’s defined by a deliberate and extreme policy of mass, uncontrolled immigration which is making us poorer not richer, is driving crime and ushering in millions of people from culturally inferior and incompatible nations.
An elite consensus that’s given us broken borders which make a mockery of our claim to be a self-governing, sovereign nation, are allowing an assortment of murderers, rapists and criminals onto our streets, and which our so-called “leaders” refuse to fix because they’re more interested in helping strangers than protecting their own citizens and children.
An elite consensus that’s ripped open our economy to a rampant and relentless globalisation that benefits an alliance of urban elites, global corporations and immigrant workers but which is smashing the working class apart and hollowing out our national economy.
And an elite consensus that would rather see Britain waste billions of £££ overseas each year on foreign aid and trying to maintain our failing asylum system than redirect all this money from British taxpayers into fixing Britain and helping British families before reaching out to the wider world.
For much of the last thirty years this broken consensus has been imposed on the Forgotten Majority in this country by both Left and Right, by both Labour and the Tories —by the Uniparty. They are the architects of the disaster that you see around you today, of the managed decline of a once great and proud nation that you used to know and love but today no longer recognise.
And so just as you’d never invite back an architect who took the home that had been loved for generations and destroyed it the people out there are now starting to reject the architects of what they see around them today —endless, unavoidable, embarrassing, never-ending national decline.
They might not think Nigel Farage has all the answers. They might not think Reform is the perfect vessel. But what unites them is a feeling that is far more powerful than any one leader or party can convey. “We want our country back”.
This is why we are now starting to see wholesale and historic change in the national polls and, soon, the country. Because what I think we might be about to witness in British politics is not just a revolt against an out-of-touch elite minority but a full scale revolution against the Uniparty and all that it stands for.”
[Matt Goodwin].
“A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]…
“‘No medical evidence’ to support Lucy Letby’s conviction, expert panel finds.
Babies the former nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering were in fact the victims of “bad medical care” or deteriorated as a result of natural causes, an expert panel has concluded.
Outlining what the senior Conservative MP David Davis described as “one of worst injustices of recent times”, the international team told a press conference there was “no medical evidence” to support claims of deliberate harm.
A panel of experts, chaired by Dr Shoo Lee, examined the cases of 17 babies whom Letby was charged with murdering or harming at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England.
Lee, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto, saidsaid the 14 experts had found “so many problems with the medical care” of the babies and nothing to support the claim they were attacked. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders,” he told a press conference in Westminster on Tuesday.”
[Guardian]
I personally have no fixed opinion at all on the matter (and have not read up on it in any great detail), but the way that the NHS now is, I do find it impossible to ignore the possibility that the unfortunate babies in question were not murdered but simply died as a result of poor care.
Also, if the Lucy Letby convictions turn out to have been unsafe, it would not be the first time that events triggering huge public anger will have also resulted in egregious miscarriages of justice.
David Davis has courage. He would have made a far better leader of the Conservative Party than any who actually were elected in the past 25-30 years.
Britain has no proper governance, whether central or local.
Afternoon music
[Tiger tanks on the Eastern Front, 1943]
[“When the SS and SA March Away“]
Late tweets
When I emailed in to end my membership/s after 34 years I explained exactly why I was leaving. Not angrily green-ink-style but politely & succinctly so they would take it on board from someone who’s worked at the heart of things for decades. The reply came back “please address…
This is akin to child abuse. I myself was taught to swim very early (by my mother, who was a championship-level swimmer and coach) but not like that! It might give the child an aversion to water.
The new goal in Britain is to build 370,000 homes a year. But according to analysis we need to build 550,000 a year just to keep up with mass immigrationhttps://t.co/pWTmH3GVcU
If you look at this poll in detail you’ll find Reform are more popular than the Tories among everybody under 65, are more popular among men, are already taking 1 in 5 2024 Tory voters & are most popular among “none of the above” non-voters https://t.co/SnwoSmwwFz
The police can’t ban anything. The police can only apply to the Home Secretary for a ban if there’s a belief there will be serious violence or disorder or serious damage to property. Disruptions don’t meet the threshold.
Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson getting the law wrong (again)…
[Update, 14 August 2026: I believe that Myerson’s Twitter/X account was hacked sometime in 2025, and the account then either closed or made not open to public view, so his legally-inaccurate tweet, answered above, is not now visible].
On a wider point, that whole traditional rank of “King’s Counsel” or KC should be done away with. Outdated, and now all but meaningless. As an ordinary barrister from 1991 (in practice from 1993) to 1996, and then from 2002-2008, I encountered QCs (as they then were) in court a number of times, and did OK against them quite a lot of the time, if I say so myself. Sometimes they won, sometimes I won.
I believe that about 1 in 6 of practising barristers are now “KC”. In the past, particularly before the Second World War, the proportion was far smaller, partly because those in a position to recommend and/or make the decision were more selective; partly, also, because there were fewer applications, and that was partly because a “KC” then usually had to “lead” a junior (non-KC) barrister, and so cost the lay client 2x, sometimes 3x or more, in fees. Some took silk only to find that they became far less busy. These days, not only does a KC often appear alone, but in some cases even unattended by a solicitor.
I believe that I recall from the memoirs of Lord Denning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning] that when he “took silk” (became a KC), in 1938, there were only 4 such “letters patent” granted that year, including his own. In 2024, no less than 100 persons became “KC” (5 honorary only, 95 ordinary).
Of course, in recent decades, arguably starting in the early 1990s, the pernicious influence of “political correctness” (now often termed “woke-ness”) has had its effect; it has never been admitted that the Bar now has some King’s Counsel appointed at least partly by reason of their “ethnic” background, but that such is the case is the opinion of not a few (including me).
Well, there it is.
As to Lord Denning, in his day, he was the most popular judge among the public; arguably the only popular judge, as well as the one with the most name-recognition. Opinion among barristers was less unmixed, though few if any would dispute his very great ability.
I saw Lord Denning up close only once or twice, notably when hurrying to the Library at Lincoln’s Inn in the early 1990s. My chambers were in the Inn at the time, and I was also a member of the Inn then (I was much later —2017— expelled, as an automatic consequence of my politically-procured disbarment of 2016).
I pushed open the very heavy oakwood Library door and missed, by only an inch or two, knocking over Lord Denning, who must have been about 94 (b.1899). I recall that he did not flinch, and smiled benignly as I held open the door for him.
[Lincoln’s Inn Library]
Incidentally, just now looking at Wikipedia’s article on Denning, I see that, by 1936 (2 years before he took silk), his income was some £3,000 a year (arguably worth about £200,000 in the money of today, and income tax was far lower in 1936). Impressive, but the leading silk of the day, Birkett, at about that time had an income of £25,000 (between £1.5M and £2M today).
By comparison, in that era, domestic staff in a large country house might receive between £100 a year (kitchen maid) to £250-£500 a year (chief gamekeeper, or for a valued chief cook or butler in a great household). Of course, most were fed, clothed, and given accommodation as well.
Still, Denning, in the mid-1930s, was making about 10x the income of a head gamekeeper, and perhaps 30x the income of a kitchen maid. Birkett, on a fee-income of between £25,000 and £40,000 a year, was making as much as ten times even those figures! Several millions a year, in 2024 money.
Social history. Interesting.
I see that, when Denning was made a High Court judge in 1944, his salary was set at £7,000, perhaps £300,000-£400,000 in today’s money, so rather more than High Court judges now get (around £225,000; and income tax is higher today).
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Ukrainian police are throwing more and more forces into forced mobilization The video shows the detention of a "hijacker" with the purpose of sending him to the front in the city of Khmelnitsky pic.twitter.com/LwZ0kPXqXd
“Towns targeted by Labour’s ‘bulldozer blitz’: The English councils that must build up to 21 TIMES more homes than they had planned to as Angela Rayner releases list of targets.”
The traitors at Westminster have to be rooted out, and the migration-invasion first stopped, then reversed.
“A homeless man who killed an NHS worker mother-of-three by repeatedly orally raping her as she lay unconscious on a park bench has been jailed for life.“
[Daily Mail]
So why was the bastard even here in the UK? Nothing in the Daily Mail report (of course). Looks Somali, but nothing in that very poor report about the origin or background of the criminal.
The Daily Mail “journalist” also describes the untermensch in question as having been “homeless” at the time that he killed the victim, but then goes on to say that the defendant drove away, went shopping after the attack, and then returned to his home!
No indication in that report as to why the defendant was even in the country. Nothing about the savage having a job, either, yet here the bastard is, in the UK, and with a home and a car, at that. Oh, and he had enough money to buy cocaine, apparently.
At least he thought to buy food for his cat, as it seems. I hope that the cat was not made homeless.
This country is so screwed, incredibly so.
Nothing that mass deportations or executions could not at least start to solve, though.
